Faceless

Chapter 24: Graduation

"So, what's the plan? Do we just storm in and try to... I dunno, strangle them with their intestines and slurp their veins like spaghetti or something?" I asked 006.

"Sure? Why not? As much as I usually have more self-preservation instinct, let's just do it. I can't think of anything better" She replied.

We ran to the head teacher building, from there we threw stones at the windows, attempting to break them. Instead, the head teacher, Mr S opened the window and smiled condescendingly at us. 

"Do you really think this will work?"

"Well, not really, but we have to try!" I yelled back. You see, I'm a naturally curious person, so I guess that was my motive for my next series of unnecessary questions. "Tell us WHY you do all this!"

"..." He hesitated, as if contemplating. "I am incredibly secretive of this all. Tell my why I should tell you"

"Because I'm curious". 006 looked at me like she was gonna choke me and not stop when I passed out.

"Ha! You're an entertaining child! I might just tell you, but I have something to say..." He moved his head closer to us, his eyes almost crazy looking. "If I was a normal villain I'd tell you out of pride because you were just going to die anyway, and that would be my downfall. However, I'm smarter than that! I've run a secret crime spree for decades and nobody knows about it! I've figured out things the world's most renowned scientists couldn't! I figured out how to change human biology and never reported a thing for my own motives and never got caught! Of course I'm smart, and I'm not stupid enough to tell things for an imaginary audience to have closure!" He paused... "... Or maybe I am that prideful, huh? I've been dying to tell someone! Maybe it's time I give it up. Come on in, girls".

I was surprised how easy that was. I headed to the door but 006 grabbed my arm.

"It's a trap! Don't do it!".

Upon realising we noticed Dr P and Mrs M suddenly appeared and grabbed us, forcing us inside. Damn it! That was his plan! I'd screwed us!

"But I genuinely do wanna tell you now, I guess I'll just have to know I'm not the kind of villain with a prideful hamartia, huh?". He proceeded to go on a rant to us, telling us everything as though it'd all been on the tip of his tongue for years, not making a single error or pause except to breathe as though it was a script in his mind.

"Ever since I was a young boy I've been so curious about humans, specifically what lengths they will go to in the face of danger. But I didn't want to just hear about it or see it in a fictional book or a movie, that would be boring. Only a coward would want to know without figuring it out themselves! So I bought this place and I made it a perfectly normal school until I figured out the technology to make YOU. And once I did it was chaos, I wanted to take every flaw in the education system and take it to the extreme, just to see what you would do and how long it would take to have it overthrown... To see just how extreme people can go, no matter their age. You aren't even teenagers yet and you both already have terrorism charges on you! Well, terrorism if you were chargd and if this was a normal school. But it's not, but that doesn't matter. You are traumatised, in fight or flight, and that is the beauty I have forever longed to see". He sighed as he finished talking. "It seems a 40 year wait was worth it, I finally got to see myself destroyed, I got every answer I wanted firsthand".

I was puzzled. Was that really it? Were we winning, were we about to overthrow him?

"We must admit something to you girls" Dr P chimed in. "Since you did that 1 rebellious act everyone's been joining. Almost every one. Even we can't fight this, we can't put everyone in detention. You've won, well done girls".

So that's all it took. 1 act. 3 people. 1 idea to take down 40 years of terror, to take down this bloody empire. Mr S didn't look sad, it seemed he had been planning to lose at some point, he wanted to see what it was like to have himself destroyed by the consequences of his own actions.

"Farewell" Mrs M said. She pushed a hidden button and suddenly all the buildings collapsed...